Last fall I was walking along a Long Island Sound beach with my eight-year old son looking at driftwood. He asked me if we could collect some driftwood to build something with. This was the latest in ...

Imagine six samurai and their soft-spoken master set loose on the Sausalito waterfront with chisels, rasps, whet stones and screaming power saws. Wooden boatbuilding is staging a comeback, but the few ...

Imagine six samurai and their soft-spoken master set loose on the Sausalito waterfront with chisels, rasps, whetstones and screaming power saws. Wooden boatbuilding is staging a comeback, but the few ...

Assistant Vince Gordon, of Bigfork, works with boat building student, Susan Timmons, of Kalispell, on her sailboat during a Montana Wooden Boat Foundation boat building class in Lakeside. (Mackenzie ...

In the run-up to summer boating season, the crews at Irish Boat Shop are busy behind the scenes keeping wood boats primed to live on the waves forever. To understand the importance of a couple of ...

The art of building small wooden boats is being used to help young, at-risk adults turn their lives around. They are serving as apprentices in a boat building program, sponsored by the Alexandria ...

SANTA CRUZ — A historic wooden sailboat used to rescue North Sea fishermen decades ago has undergone its own 20-year rescue and is now resting quietly in the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor. The ...

ROSKILDE, Denmark (AP) — For thousands of years, wooden sailboats allowed the peoples of Northern Europe to spread trade, influence and sometimes war across seas and continents. In December, the ...